Hey 👋 I can’t disagree but ultimately they extinguished his flame too. There are many ways of living an artistic life and I don’t judge. I’m just eternally grateful for his presence in our world 🤘🤘🤘
I love this, I’m trying to learn left handed guitar after paying right handed for over 30 years, all of these tips are perfect things to master from square one as I can’t hardly do a darn thing left handed.
@@crucifixgym thank you! Are you finding an advantage in swapping? As a right handed I feel there is more dexterity in my right hand and might have found it easier to use that as my fretting hand. I often find left handers prefer to learn right handed, not least because it’s harder to get the left handed guitar you want. Cheers 🤘
@@martinsmith4123 it’s the most humbling feeling ever, both hands feel completely useless swapped over, so if anything I can sympathize with new students and understand the foreign difficulty of beginning guitar all over again, things like tense muscles, fatigue from not being relaxed, no understanding of pick placement and picking mechanics, wrist positioning on the fretting hand, fingerboard placement and pressure, choking notes inadvertently, and so much more you take for granted after so many years that you just “go like this” and it happens. That’s why your tips are great ideas, a lot of them circumvent some issues to directly focus on problems lying behind problems. Then you can always switch back to right handed to break down what exactly you do that you don’t have to think about and try to implement it left handed, but I like the idea of just starting fresh and letting the brain figure it all out on its own after “hours and hours” which it does take to just feel comfortable your own way because everyone really does play in their own way to some degree.
Really solid, pragmatic, nuts and bolts advice. Also, I don't think anyone else has made the connection between Edward's early exposure to piano and the physicality that it imparted to his guitar technique. 🤘
Great video! This is the most well rounded instructional clip I have seen regarding Ed's techniques. I also really appreciate the mention of the need to protect the hands through exercises. Thank you!
Martin…there really is some kind of science in the way we learn…when we learn something new, it gets cemented into our brain and it is really hard to “un-learn” it!!
God!! Prioceless master class!!!!! Where were you when I was 18 and picked up the guitar!!!!???? This coulded been a major break through in my playing!!!!
Great advice I ran into you like a year ago on here and then I forgot the name and I'm finally just coming across you again I subscribe so I'd love to take lessons from you
Incredible lessons given here! Also get your guitar set up to play it's best, no matter what kind it is, will remove unnecessary road blocks to speed and facility. It is not fun fighting to push down one note. Nut action, relief, fret-leveling- Ed tinkered like a hot-rod mechanic to get his Frankie machines running @ peak performance too
Great video with excellent advice! I read a Joe Satriani interview back in the early 90s where he said that you want to focus on accuracy when youre practicing. The speed will come eventually. Cant stress enough how important this advice was for me. Took my playing to a different level. It took a few months just like you said but I got there. I was a 22 year kid with all the time in the world so would play 6-8 hrs per day off and on. Played hammer/pull off exercises similar to what you showed. Anyway, nice job!
Thanks so much, I was a guitarist in the eighties and trying to get back into it now, wondering how I'm ever going to get my speed back. Perfect advice at the perfect time! Thanks so much! Paul Sanders
Great clip! I'll share an experience I had that you may dig: I sat in Zeke Clark's Minneapolis hotel room, (after mentioning we'd drove 8 hours in 'The Scamp From Hell' and he freaked telling me all the guys had gone down to the parkade to take pix with it - I'd Van Halenized the entire interior - and I'd asked about seats not in the nose bleeds and he invited me up), in July of 88, the night before the Monsters of Rock show. When we walked in the room I saw the 1984 and 5150 guitars on the bed. He sat in a chair and asked me to hand him a guitar. I handed him the 5150 and I sat on the end of the bed with the 84. I was amazed to find a shallow rout behind the Floyd so he could pull sharp but also _how sloppy and loose_ the wang bar was! We'd barely played 5 minutes and Ed called and sounded irate so I had to bail. Because I am a tool, I put the VH logo and autograph embossed pick _back on the pick tape_ on the lower bout. I'll regret that bit of honesty the rest of my life. Those ethics have screwed me more then once! 😂 But I did get some good karma the next day when a security guard saw me standing beside the front row in the red shoes, pants and tee that I'd Van Halenized. "You're the biggest fan I've seen on this tour!!" He handed me a sky blue pick that Mikey had tossed. More surprising, earlier in the show, dressed like a fool, a guy saw my Aftershow pass and, because I had Zeke's Crew pass, I swapped the little "After Show" circle for a big, diamond shape laminated pass that had by initials written on it at the top! What are the odds of that?! Was a great 38 hours I'll never forget. 👌
@@martinsmith4123I just finished it after accidentally posting it when you must have replied. 3am, can't sleep. Can't believe I fecking tapped all this on my phone! Cheers and thanks again for the great clip.
@@martinsmith4123"Always steal picks"! Missed that. 😂😂😎 Yeah. But I didn't want to swipe from my hero. Besides, tickets for the 10 hour show were only $28. Imagine that. That show also got me waaaay into Metallica. Scorps were tight, Dokken following Metallica, despite George's awesome Mr. Scary solo, died following them.
The importance of stretching and strengthening cannot be overstated. Last year i learned the intro to Hot For Teacher and developed painful tendinitis in my index finger that has never fully healed. The strength required to do those hammer ons with fingers stretched to the limit is no joke. Taking it slowly and limiting my practice sessions would probably have prevented my injury.
Awesome video. It really did inspire awe. If it's wasn't 1am I would be inspired to start trying these techniques RIGHT NOW... but it will have to wait until tomorrow 😢
I could not watch until the end. You made me grab my guitar. That's a good thing. Subbed. Cheers. P.S. London and Milton Keynes raised. I am a Kiwi now though. We escaped the wicked witch's axe and legged it out of Blighty. We flew actually, but point being that the accent is familiar. It works for me. Stay calm and none of the hype that gets my blood pressure up.
Those left hand hammering pull offs only w/1 hand majorly helped me this technique was what malmsteen showed me after a show i sat down drank & talked guitar way Kool a fight broke out I stuck up for yngwie but one handed pull offs are the way. > MEENNALS & HANNELS & SQUEALS forever
I like practicing this on acoustic guitar, it's a different feel, but when I get on the electric... LOOK OUT! ha! GOOD LESSON... when I was younger, people thought that playing Eddie Tapping was cheating; so I veered off it and just played; but now I'm trying get back those lost Taps, in Honor of The King! RIP, Eddie VH...Peace.
@@eddiejr540 y’know I’m not sure he did. He was half Indonesian and those guys have very low body fat. Their muscles look mad ripped with little effort.
I'm the same way . I got pretty small hands cuz I'm only 5ft 7 but I play pretty hard with my fret and pick hand. I do those wrist and hand exercises too.
Good stuff. A few other "Ed-isms" I notice - bouncing the same riff back and forth between octaves (usually start high and then repeat one lower). Also, his fast runs were often not of any particular scale or mode - he just did the same sequence on each string. Which normally would sound off, but if you do it super-fast and make sure your start and end notes are "good", the stuff in the middle just kind of flies by. And his tap harmonics are pretty signature.
Great lesson! Stretching before playing is So So important. I'm guilty of picking up guitar and then playing for 20 30 minutes flat out. I'm in my late 40s now and I can tell you my hands get really painful if I don't stretch.
I've posted a summary below of what causes CTS, and I dont think it has anything to do with blood flow... it's a form of repetitive strain injury. Warming up your hands may help in limiting the chances of developing CTS, or it may not. I'm not criticising you... just posting accurate information. Summary. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a painful disorder of the hand caused by pressure on nerves that run through the wrist. Anything that aggravates and inflames the tendons can cause carpal tunnel syndrome, including repetitive hand movements, pregnancy, and arthritis.
Eddie powered his amps with a high end power conditioner that included varible voltage control. He cranked his amps up loud and starved them for voltage by setting the varible voltage to just under 100 volts.
@@martinsmith4123 I hope you can find it as that would really be something! I’ve never seen or heard of Wolf giving any specific reference to Edward’s practice regime or actually playing a specific Edward lick in any interview apart from jokingly playing some of the tapping part of “Eruption”!
@@ericfraser4658 I don’t recall that, but I have never seen or heard of any interview in which Wolf actually says and demonstrates anything his Dad played with the exception of the tapping part from “Eruption”. I’ll go back and listen to those two episodes, but if there’s something there, it is second hand and not provable really,
wejo. how long befoelre you see progres with that tab and pull off . that on high e .. i do that alot play things without amp when watching tv.. so i now go try those things that can make progress like that.. i did it with chords and scales and play blind.. and in 3 weeks i could play all barre chords and open and scales.. now i am week 15 and can play alot things.. i only did not try play songs.. i wanted to do the boring things first so i could follow videos and could do what they said.. now i going to do this speed exercises.. thanks🎉
At 1 Time,back in the day,like 79!I wanted to be and play like EVH!Got the Star Licks,series to master,King Edward!Let's just say it sucked,trying to get this!Now!I dont care!I'm My Own Rock Star!With my Own Sum of Limitless outlooks of what Ever that I'm Free to Play!Take Care,mastering,yer,Own Style,nah!😊
Hey :) I can downpick 180 bpm 8th notes and alternate pick 160 bpm 16th notes for 20 seconds both.. I would like to increase the speed by another 30 bpm at least... but can't.. have no idea what do to do.. maybe limit of my genetics
You scare the crap out of me with that guitar, but then i show the discription. Frienly advise, do not mess up with that cream one humbucker strat!!! And by the way what mixing console do you use?
@@ΑνδρέαςΜιχαλόπουλος-κ5ψ hehe. I’ll never mess with my 82 strat. This is a new guitar from Cutler Customs here in the UK. The Console is a Trident Trimix. Cheers 🤘🤘🤘
I have long wondered if EVH, Slash, Nuno etc have ever sucked in guitar. They had to but I havent found any record where some of these guitars gods would suck (except when Slash was totally drunk). I wondered if they learnt to play good really fast. Like when EVH picked up his brothers guitar for the first time he probably was really good player after a year, maybe in half a year. EVH once said that he hasnt technically got any better since their first album and why would he even need to. Thats a technically masterpiece guitar playing album. And he probably played with that master technique years before the first album. If anyone has a recording of any so called guitar virtuoso when they were beginners I would really like to hear them "suck". Of course their time there were very limited ways to record your stuff. But lets say younger virtuosos like Kiko Loureiro or teemu Megadeths present guitarist who is very young. Is there any recording where he was beginner... are they ashamed to share recorfing when they sucked.. that would engourage all players to show that they really sucked sometime too =)
@@bogse there is a recording on RUclips which claims to be Ed as a young teen. Sounds like a cassette recorder in a bedroom and quite a lot like Ed but also quite mundane in many ways. Good ideas but certainly not groundbreaking at all. If that helps any. Cheers 🤘🤘
@@martinsmith4123 Thanks. I have heard some recording that claims to be Eddie jamming at home different songs at least Somebody get me a doctor (Van Halen II)... no idea if thats really Eddie: named: Eddie Van Halen 1974 jamming at home ..thats still pretty advanced stuff played in that recording.But certainly he got much better than that if thats Eddie. Anyway that could be anyone playing.
@@bogse I think it’s been accepted as Ed by a few reliable people but this is from the back of my memory. Thing is Ed was 19 in 74 and had been playing 8 years by then. In today’s climate one might expect him to have progressed more by that stage but this was pre RUclips, pre ED! He literally invented a vocabulary. Seems like his biggest improvement period came between 74 and 77 judging from that cassette. Hope that’s been helpful to your point. 🤘🤘🤘
@@martinsmith4123 Yeah thanks. I wonder what is the talk after playing in that video. Maybe we here in that record the very raw version of Somebody get me a doctor. I think he plays the beginning riff pretty much as it is in album but who knows if any other parts were made or did he even knew this is going to be a song =)
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Damn, I miss EVH! The World was a little brighter knowing we might hear some new music, or see them again in concert. Those days are gone. Miss u bro!
Great advice, thank you. Lots of coke, booze and cigarettes were also major contributors to Ed's physical and mental fire 🔥
Hey 👋 I can’t disagree but ultimately they extinguished his flame too. There are many ways of living an artistic life and I don’t judge. I’m just eternally grateful for his presence in our world 🤘🤘🤘
I first read your comment as ‘cake’…not ‘coke’….i thought, ‘I like cake!’ 😂
@@bobbynip66 🤣🍰🤣🤘🤘🤘
WRONG about cocaine.
@@JoelDubay?
EVH was so unique! 🎸👑
This channel is youtubes best kept secret! I hope youd have 100K subscribers in no time
@@atteljas well that’s very cool and nice of you, thank you 🤘🤘🤘
I love this, I’m trying to learn left handed guitar after paying right handed for over 30 years, all of these tips are perfect things to master from square one as I can’t hardly do a darn thing left handed.
@@crucifixgym thank you! Are you finding an advantage in swapping? As a right handed I feel there is more dexterity in my right hand and might have found it easier to use that as my fretting hand. I often find left handers prefer to learn right handed, not least because it’s harder to get the left handed guitar you want. Cheers 🤘
@@martinsmith4123 it’s the most humbling feeling ever, both hands feel completely useless swapped over, so if anything I can sympathize with new students and understand the foreign difficulty of beginning guitar all over again, things like tense muscles, fatigue from not being relaxed, no understanding of pick placement and picking mechanics, wrist positioning on the fretting hand, fingerboard placement and pressure, choking notes inadvertently, and so much more you take for granted after so many years that you just “go like this” and it happens. That’s why your tips are great ideas, a lot of them circumvent some issues to directly focus on problems lying behind problems. Then you can always switch back to right handed to break down what exactly you do that you don’t have to think about and try to implement it left handed, but I like the idea of just starting fresh and letting the brain figure it all out on its own after “hours and hours” which it does take to just feel comfortable your own way because everyone really does play in their own way to some degree.
Really solid, pragmatic, nuts and bolts advice. Also, I don't think anyone else has made the connection between Edward's early exposure to piano and the physicality that it imparted to his guitar technique. 🤘
@@houseofmars4319 cheers 🤘🤘🤘
Great video! This is the most well rounded instructional clip I have seen regarding Ed's techniques. I also really appreciate the mention of the need to protect the hands through exercises. Thank you!
Great exercises here!!! THank you!
Thanks for the exercises. Practice doesn’t make perfect it make permanent. Practice right play right.
@@iansmith5973 you’re welcome. Thanks for the new aphorism 🤘🤘🤘
I just had to Google 'aphorism'. Then I had to Google 'pithy'. Learn something new every day, or maybe every few days or so. Near enough I guess. :D
Love the cutler customs axe
I loved that. I practiced those exercises last night and then for a few more hours again tonight.
Martin…there really is some kind of science in the way we learn…when we learn something new, it gets cemented into our brain and it is really hard to “un-learn” it!!
@@eddiejr540 yep. The first cut is the deepest 🤘🤘
@@eddiejr540 here’s the wonderful Susan Rogers explains music cognition here ⏭️
ruclips.net/video/jIV8tTauye0/видео.htmlsi=EKS5AVNFoJoHTKez
You gave me the faith !!! Your lesson is silple but very boosting !!!!! Thank so much Martin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Martin for the great tips and lesson 😊
Awesome video, very informative. Thank you
Excellent advice and remember if it starts to Hurt, Stop and rest. Thanks Great video Martin
God!! Prioceless master class!!!!! Where were you when I was 18 and picked up the guitar!!!!???? This coulded been a major break through in my playing!!!!
@@dominiquez5643 🤘🤘🤘
Fantastic lesson! thank you
Inspirational and heartfelt. Makes me want to go practice right now! Thank you!
Great advice I ran into you like a year ago on here and then I forgot the name and I'm finally just coming across you again I subscribe so I'd love to take lessons from you
The man is back! Lets go, Martin!
Incredible lessons given here! Also get your guitar set up to play it's best, no matter what kind it is, will remove unnecessary road blocks to speed and facility. It is not fun fighting to push down one note. Nut action, relief, fret-leveling- Ed tinkered like a hot-rod mechanic to get his Frankie machines running @ peak performance too
@@FingersOnAFretboard 🤘🤘🤘
Great video with excellent advice! I read a Joe Satriani interview back in the early 90s where he said that you want to focus on accuracy when youre practicing. The speed will come eventually. Cant stress enough how important this advice was for me. Took my playing to a different level. It took a few months just like you said but I got there. I was a 22 year kid with all the time in the world so would play 6-8 hrs per day off and on. Played hammer/pull off exercises similar to what you showed. Anyway, nice job!
@@charliewilkins3041 thanks Charlie! 6-8hrs is proper commitment. 🤘🤘🤘
Thanks so much, I was a guitarist in the eighties and trying to get back into it now, wondering how I'm ever going to get my speed back. Perfect advice at the perfect time! Thanks so much!
Paul Sanders
Glad you could use it Paul. All the best with it🤘🤘🎸
Great clip! I'll share an experience I had that you may dig:
I sat in Zeke Clark's Minneapolis hotel room, (after mentioning we'd drove 8 hours in 'The Scamp From Hell' and he freaked telling me all the guys had gone down to the parkade to take pix with it - I'd Van Halenized the entire interior - and I'd asked about seats not in the nose bleeds and he invited me up), in July of 88, the night before the Monsters of Rock show.
When we walked in the room I saw the 1984 and 5150 guitars on the bed.
He sat in a chair and asked me to hand him a guitar.
I handed him the 5150 and I sat on the end of the bed with the 84.
I was amazed to find a shallow rout behind the Floyd so he could pull sharp but also _how sloppy and loose_ the wang bar was!
We'd barely played 5 minutes and Ed called and sounded irate so I had to bail.
Because I am a tool, I put the VH logo and autograph embossed pick _back on the pick tape_ on the lower bout. I'll regret that bit of honesty the rest of my life. Those ethics have screwed me more then once! 😂
But I did get some good karma the next day when a security guard saw me standing beside the front row in the red shoes, pants and tee that I'd Van Halenized. "You're the biggest fan I've seen on this tour!!"
He handed me a sky blue pick that Mikey had tossed.
More surprising, earlier in the show, dressed like a fool, a guy saw my Aftershow pass and, because I had Zeke's Crew pass, I swapped the little "After Show" circle for a big, diamond shape laminated pass that had by initials written on it at the top!
What are the odds of that?!
Was a great 38 hours I'll never forget. 👌
@@ROOKTABULA love that story. #alwaysstealpicks
@@martinsmith4123I just finished it after accidentally posting it when you must have replied. 3am, can't sleep. Can't believe I fecking tapped all this on my phone!
Cheers and thanks again for the great clip.
@@martinsmith4123"Always steal picks"! Missed that. 😂😂😎
Yeah. But I didn't want to swipe from my hero.
Besides, tickets for the 10 hour show were only $28. Imagine that.
That show also got me waaaay into Metallica. Scorps were tight, Dokken following Metallica, despite George's awesome Mr. Scary solo, died following them.
Really enjoying all this VH info! Keep it coming please.
The importance of stretching and strengthening cannot be overstated. Last year i learned the intro to Hot For Teacher and developed painful tendinitis in my index finger that has never fully healed. The strength required to do those hammer ons with fingers stretched to the limit is no joke. Taking it slowly and limiting my practice sessions would probably have prevented my injury.
@@goutzilla26 sorry to hear, yes stretching and pacing yourself is vital. Build slowly and progressively. Hope it gets better soon 🤘🤘
Great workouts
Holy crap! I learned so much. I got better from one video. Thank you, so much.
This is gold!
Very good lesson! Subscribed!
Thanks for the insights...explains why the song Spanish Fly sounds the way it does. Thank you 👍
Awesome video. It really did inspire awe. If it's wasn't 1am I would be inspired to start trying these techniques RIGHT NOW... but it will have to wait until tomorrow 😢
Bloody bangin vid again Martin, as always!
Good stuff. Between you and Tom Shred’s channel, the EVH is coming along nicely. 🤙🏼
Amazing mate 👍
I could not watch until the end. You made me grab my guitar. That's a good thing. Subbed. Cheers.
P.S. London and Milton Keynes raised. I am a Kiwi now though. We escaped the wicked witch's axe and legged it out of Blighty. We flew actually, but point being that the accent is familiar. It works for me. Stay calm and none of the hype that gets my blood pressure up.
great vid!!!!
Those left hand hammering pull offs only w/1 hand majorly helped me this technique was what malmsteen showed me after a show i sat down drank & talked guitar way Kool a fight broke out I stuck up for yngwie but one handed pull offs are the way. > MEENNALS & HANNELS & SQUEALS forever
Awesome video Martin Your Such Amazing Guitar Player Thanks
I like practicing this on acoustic guitar, it's a different feel, but when I get on the electric... LOOK OUT! ha!
GOOD LESSON... when I was younger, people thought that playing Eddie Tapping was cheating; so I veered off it and just played; but now I'm trying get back those lost Taps, in Honor of The King! RIP, Eddie VH...Peace.
I think Eddie lifted weights…12 ounces at a time🤣…always look fwd to your vids…great stuff brother!!
@@eddiejr540 y’know I’m not sure he did. He was half Indonesian and those guys have very low body fat. Their muscles look mad ripped with little effort.
@martinsmith4123
At times he also had a lot of muscle mass, not only ripped.
@@jfo3000 seemed so. Dude had everything didn’t he? One in a billion
Excellent!
Thanks man
Great lesson ❤👏👏👏
I'm the same way . I got pretty small hands cuz I'm only 5ft 7 but I play pretty hard with my fret and pick hand. I do those wrist and hand exercises too.
Good stuff. A few other "Ed-isms" I notice - bouncing the same riff back and forth between octaves (usually start high and then repeat one lower). Also, his fast runs were often not of any particular scale or mode - he just did the same sequence on each string. Which normally would sound off, but if you do it super-fast and make sure your start and end notes are "good", the stuff in the middle just kind of flies by. And his tap harmonics are pretty signature.
@@donald-parker completely correct 🤘🤘
Good stuff bro.
The Spanish Fly phrase is the same phrase as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly theme 😊
Great lesson! Stretching before playing is So So important. I'm guilty of picking up guitar and then playing for 20 30 minutes flat out. I'm in my late 40s now and I can tell you my hands get really painful if I don't stretch.
I've posted a summary below of what causes CTS, and I dont think it has anything to do with blood flow... it's a form of repetitive strain injury.
Warming up your hands may help in limiting the chances of developing CTS, or it may not. I'm not criticising you... just posting accurate information.
Summary. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a painful disorder of the hand caused by pressure on nerves that run through the wrist. Anything that aggravates and inflames the tendons can cause carpal tunnel syndrome, including repetitive hand movements, pregnancy, and arthritis.
Not to be too much wanker, yet that great angled pick sound still changes my sound/feel.
I gotta play more !
Martin! Great informative approach! Olympic stretching!
Which amp of yours is being used in this demo?-
✌🏻❤️
Thanks Jamie, I’ve added the gear used to the description. Thanks for your comments as ever 🤘🤘🤘
Thank you Martin!! Both amps are….
I mean….
They’re just so…
😑🫡👏🏻❤️
Eddie powered his amps with a high end power conditioner that included varible voltage control. He cranked his amps up loud and starved them for voltage by setting the varible voltage to just under 100 volts.
@@user-zn6gz4ub7w yes indeed, the ohmite Variac was usually set between 80 and 90 volts.
Just the tip 😂
You just had to bring up pinky and third, didn't you?
Good stuff.
Do you have an interview reference for that “Eruption” exercise bit that you mentioned Wolf speaking about?
I’m racking my brains… it was a one to one interview, maybe a gear related one. If I remember I’ll let you know x
@@martinsmith4123 I hope you can find it as that would really be something! I’ve never seen or heard of Wolf giving any specific reference to Edward’s practice regime or actually playing a specific Edward lick in any interview apart from jokingly playing some of the tapping part of “Eruption”!
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun I thought I heard Dweezil mention on RWTDweezil, speaking to Blues Saraceno or Nuno 🤔
@@ericfraser4658 I don’t recall that, but I have never seen or heard of any interview in which Wolf actually says and demonstrates anything his Dad played with the exception of the tapping part from “Eruption”. I’ll go back and listen to those two episodes, but if there’s something there, it is second hand and not provable really,
wejo.
how long befoelre you see progres with that tab and pull off . that on high e ..
i do that alot play things without amp when watching tv..
so i now go try those things that can make progress like that..
i did it with chords and scales and play blind.. and in 3 weeks i could play all barre chords and open and scales.. now i am week 15 and can play alot things..
i only did not try play songs.. i wanted to do the boring things first so i could follow videos and could do what they said..
now i going to do this speed exercises..
thanks🎉
All the best with your journey🤘🤘🤘
At 1 Time,back in the day,like 79!I wanted to be and play like EVH!Got the Star Licks,series to master,King Edward!Let's just say it sucked,trying to get this!Now!I dont care!I'm My Own Rock Star!With my Own Sum of Limitless outlooks of what Ever that I'm Free to Play!Take Care,mastering,yer,Own Style,nah!😊
I practice Eruption all the time to play like Eddie.
GREAT VIDEO. WHICH GUITAR IS THAT ONE?
@@bluematrix5001 it’s a Panama custom by Cutler Custom Guitars
www.cutlercustomguitars.co.uk/
Thanks 🤘🤘
Martin - please - no more OLD guitars - bring us NEW guitars! No more of these old worn out guitars!!!! (Stolen from The Jerk😂)
Hey :) I can downpick 180 bpm 8th notes and alternate pick 160 bpm 16th notes for 20 seconds both.. I would like to increase the speed by another 30 bpm at least... but can't.. have no idea what do to do.. maybe limit of my genetics
@@igorperic5232 genetics are maybe a smaller part than how much you practice, how you practice and the refinement of your technique.
Eddie was a gift from the almighty, hallelujah amen 🙏 🎉
Great tone ! What amp ?
Thank you! The intro was recorded on the Bray coco50. The rest of the video was The One by Marshmello. Thanks for watching 🤘🤘
Cheers thanks mate 👍
Is that Van Halen right at the start?
It’s one of my riffs 🤘🤘🤘
@chriskrueger
Eddie actually prefered pepsi over coke😅
You scare the crap out of me with that guitar, but then i show the discription. Frienly advise, do not mess up with that cream one humbucker strat!!!
And by the way what mixing console do you use?
@@ΑνδρέαςΜιχαλόπουλος-κ5ψ hehe. I’ll never mess with my 82 strat. This is a new guitar from Cutler Customs here in the UK. The Console is a Trident Trimix. Cheers 🤘🤘🤘
@@martinsmith4123 thanks that's cool
Looks like good fun my friend…I’ll be there!
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun thank you Allen. Always great to have you in our EVH community 🤘🤘
Great stuff revealed here and good note about Ed’s piano playing, which probably got him thinking very linearly
@@ericfraser4658 🙏thanks Eric. Linear, good way of putting it, yes 🤘🤘🤘
Sweet thank you…pentatonics are getting a bit boring.
I’m not bald
I have long wondered if EVH, Slash, Nuno etc have ever sucked in guitar. They had to but I havent found any record where some of these guitars gods would suck (except when Slash was totally drunk). I wondered if they learnt to play good really fast. Like when EVH picked up his brothers guitar for the first time he probably was really good player after a year, maybe in half a year.
EVH once said that he hasnt technically got any better since their first album and why would he even need to. Thats a technically masterpiece guitar playing album. And he probably played with that master technique years before the first album.
If anyone has a recording of any so called guitar virtuoso when they were beginners I would really like to hear them "suck". Of course their time there were very limited ways to record your stuff.
But lets say younger virtuosos like Kiko Loureiro or teemu Megadeths present guitarist who is very young. Is there any recording where he was beginner... are they ashamed to share recorfing when they sucked.. that would engourage all players to show that they really sucked sometime too =)
@@bogse there is a recording on RUclips which claims to be Ed as a young teen. Sounds like a cassette recorder in a bedroom and quite a lot like Ed but also quite mundane in many ways. Good ideas but certainly not groundbreaking at all. If that helps any.
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@@martinsmith4123 Thanks. I have heard some recording that claims to be Eddie jamming at home different songs at least Somebody get me a doctor (Van Halen II)... no idea if thats really Eddie: named: Eddie Van Halen 1974 jamming at home ..thats still pretty advanced stuff played in that recording.But certainly he got much better than that if thats Eddie. Anyway that could be anyone playing.
@@bogse I think it’s been accepted as Ed by a few reliable people but this is from the back of my memory. Thing is Ed was 19 in 74 and had been playing 8 years by then. In today’s climate one might expect him to have progressed more by that stage but this was pre RUclips, pre ED! He literally invented a vocabulary. Seems like his biggest improvement period came between 74 and 77 judging from that cassette. Hope that’s been helpful to your point.
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@@martinsmith4123 Yeah thanks. I wonder what is the talk after playing in that video. Maybe we here in that record the very raw version of Somebody get me a doctor. I think he plays the beginning riff pretty much as it is in album but who knows if any other parts were made or did he even knew this is going to be a song =)
Nice, but no sounds like Halen. Why?
@@topavelka there’s so much to share, it’s not only about the sound 🤘🤘🤘
Evh didn't have real speed
@@XJT0428 compared to?
Silly ass comment